English or English?
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GetDigital.eu showed this at me a few moments ago:
When I "went to the English version," the keyboard I was interested in turned out to be made not by Unicomp, but by Unucomomp. I guess this is some sort of knock-off English enjoyed by manufacturers such as Abibas, Nokla, Rubok, Sumsung and their likes...
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For added fun, this is what you get by changing to any language on their site.
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I'd prefer an English page, if you wouldn't mind spellchecking your shit at the very least GetDigital.eu, thanks.
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They have this fucked up rather recently. They are a German shop, and they had German and English version. If they detected your browser country/language to be not from any of Deutschsprachige countries, they offered you to change to English version or an der Deutschen Seite bleiben.
Now they added a few languages more, and fucked up the whole thing in process.
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Hex mode is ... interesting.
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130€ for a keyboard that looks like it's from the 80s?!
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What, is it one of the old IBM clicky style ones?
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Yeah, the patent is still used because everyone loved those things so much.
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I assume it was Discourse that made the image darker?
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Wasn't that bug fi- oh yeah,
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Is any bug in @Dischorse ever really fixed?
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Don't think so, unless you mean the original image.
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Well, shit. They looked different darknesses (the original and yours) but now I've put them side-by-side they're the same.
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IBM sold their peripherals division to Lexmark, who sold the keyboard section to this company. Not only are they the same kind of keyboard, they're made on the same production line as the originals, with (mostly) the same molds and equipment.
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Yeah, the patent is still used because everyone loved those things so much.
Only stupid people.
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Hello,
I'm the developer responsible for this bug,
to clarify it was a combination of our translation system
and our country detection to redirect people to the corresponding page that lead to this hilarious popup.The popup should not have been displaying since we do not have a polish website :(
But it did, and the translation system tried to translate the question and the left answer to polish, but since we do not have a polish translation, it used the default which is english.It should be fixed.
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Well, shit. They looked different darknesses (the original and yours) but now I've put them side-by-side they're the same.
I'd guess it's related to the checker shadow illusion:
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The most upsetting thread on the forums:
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/what-colour-is-this-dress/8529/
(To be more precise, the part about 50ish posts in)
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The most upsetting thread on the forums
Huh, I figured that'd be the one where the change to Discourse was announced..
(ooh, swirly
. )
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(To be more precise, the part about 50ish posts in)
to be even more precise.... this post?
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/what-colour-is-this-dress/8529/46?u=accalia
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I don't know what @aliceif is talking about, but I'd like to point out the sequence of posts by @tar starting at posted 78.
Oh, I guess there's posts 47 and 48 too.
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Wow, nice. :-)
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That was the thread where I made a duck turn into a rabbit, or was it the other thing?
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That was one of the rare double whooshes too.
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Only stupid people.
Heh. Once I bought my first mechanical keyboard and used it for a day, I knew I will never go back to rubber dome shit I used for years.
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Heh. Once I bought my first mechanical keyboard and used it for a day, I knew I will never go back to rubber dome shit I used for years.
They're more convenient, but the cost is up the wazoo for them and I'm not convinced it's justified.
Well I got mine for like $15 on an auction, but it's really low-tier as far as mechanicals are concerned. Also, it's PS/2, and a bitch to clean.
That @codinghorror's keyboard looks actually pretty good, but Jesus, $150 for a keyboard?
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I got my Ducky 1087 MX Blue* tenkeyless for something like 70$, shipped from Taiwan or wherever they are made.
They seem to be just below 90$ in most shops:
Mechanical Keyboard Catalog and Guide.
MechanicalKeyboards.com is the Ultimate Mechanical Keyboard Catalog. Buy the best mechanical keyboard for gaming and typing from our huge selection.
*if you don't live/work alone, don't buy Blue, go for Brown
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They're more convenient, but the cost is up the wazoo for them and I'm not convinced it's justified.
Because they come in small batches.
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Because they come in small batches.
"Justified" as in "I don't feel I'm getting $150 worth of enjoyment from this thing", not "it's overpriced relative to production costs".
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"Justified" as in "I don't feel I'm getting $150 worth of enjoyment from this thing", not "it's overpriced relative to production costs".
Not as in "spacing inserted so that text is flush with both left and right margins"? I am disappointed.
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"Justified" as in "I don't feel I'm getting $150 worth of enjoyment from this thing", not "it's overpriced relative to production costs".
Well, I don't see those things in terms of 'enjoyment'. It's one of tools I use and will use a lot, for a long time, therefore it should be of decent quality.
I don't want to work with a shitty monitor, that strains and injures my eyes slowly, day by day. And I don't want to work with shitty keyboard that strains my hands. Same thing really.Are mechanicals pricey? Some of them are, but decent rubber dome keyboards are not exactly cheap either.
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I went with a corsair k70. I liked It so much that I later bought one of their mice. Corsair products are awesome.
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They're more convenient, but the cost is up the wazoo for them and I'm not convinced it's justified.
If you've got any kinds of wrist or hand problem, you'll feel different. My fingertips, the last few years, don't like all the typing I do; they tend to sometimes get sore. I assume it's either from getting old or from diabetes. I don't have to bottom out my keystrokes with a mechanical keyboard, so the pain I'd get is completely gone.
Plus, they should last longer.
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That @codinghorror's keyboard looks actually pretty good, but Jesus, $150 for a keyboard?
Yeah, they can get pretty pricey. I got mine for under $90, though.
I want one of these:
ErgoDox Ergonomic Mechanical Keyboard Kit | 19.2K+ Sold | Drop
Each ErgoDox keyboard kit has 14 separate components, over 160 individual items, two custom built parts and plenty of potential for modding
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"I don't feel I'm getting $150 worth of enjoyment from this thing"
Like I said above, it's not solely about "enjoyment" per se. Although in my case, I guess "not having sore fingers" could be considered that.
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I don't have to bottom out my keystrokes with a mechanical keyboard,
You don't with a normal keyboard.
How the fuck were you typing? Just jabbing your fingers down as hard as possible?
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You don't with a normal keyboard.
The shitbox rubber-dome Dell keyboards I had at work for the last 5 1/2 years, as well as the ones at my last two jobs, certainly did require that.
How the fuck were you typing? Just jabbing your fingers down as hard as possible?
Got me. Maybe I was and didn't really realize it. All I know is that I don't have the problem any more, and it happened coincident to switching keyboards. Now maybe I just learned how not to do that at the same time, I dunno, but I have the nice mech keyboard now and I don't see a good reason to go back.
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I used the IBM-Model M for years. But once I had a machine without PS/2 I couldn't use it anymore
Now I've got the DAS with Cherry MX Blue.
http://www.amazon.ca/Das-Keyboard-DASK3MKPROCLI-Professional-Mechanical/dp/B008PFABI8
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But once I had a machine without PS/2 I couldn't use it anymore
If only they made PS/2-USB converters...
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Sometimes it's nice to get something new.
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the translation system tried to translate the question and the left answer to polish, but since we do not have a polish translation, it used the default which is english.
In a similar vein, I have been reading through the archives of The Old New Thing lately, and in a few posts Raymond discusses how he's leaning Swedish. Often he writes these posts in Swedish. I used Google Translate to read one of these posts, and found that half the references to "Swedish" in the original were converted to "English" in the translation. (Specifically, "svenska" was properly converted to "Swedish", but where "Swedish" appeared in the original, such as in the opening sentence and in several links, it was translated to "English".)
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Model M keyboard - Wikipedia
